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The impact of local or national emergencies can adversely affect our financial results, condition and prospects, including such impacts from state and federal regulatory action that restrict our ability to operate our business in the ordinary course and impacts on (i) customer demand and the availability of financing for our products, (ii) our supply chain and the availability of raw materials for the manufacture of our products, (iii) the availability of labor and the health and safety of our workforce and (iv) our liquidity and access to the capital markets
−Removed: Severe weather conditions, natural disasters, hostilities and social unrest, terrorist activities, health epidemics or pandemics, concerns about the stability and solvency of financial institutions (such as liquidity concerns raised by the recent closures of Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and First Republic Bank), or other local or national emergencies (both ones quickly resolved and ones that endure over long periods of time) can adversely affect consumer spending and confidence levels, the ability to obtain financing and supply availability and costs, as well as local operations in impacted markets, all of which can affect our financial results, condition and prospects.
+Added: Severe weather conditions, natural disasters, hostilities and social unrest, terrorist activities, health epidemics or pandemics, liquidity concerns resulting from the instability or insolvency of financial institutions, or other local or national emergencies (both ones quickly resolved and ones that endure over long periods of time) can adversely affect consumer spending and confidence levels, the ability to obtain financing and the availability and cost of supplies and raw materials used to manufacture our products, as well as local operations in impacted markets, all of which can affect our financial results, condition and prospects.
Our sales of affordable homes are largely dependent on the ability of consumers to obtain financing for the purchase of a home.
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There can be no assurance that sufficient supplies of these and other raw materials will continue to be available to us.
−Removed: Sudden increases in price or lack of availability of raw materials can be caused by natural disaster, regulation or other market forces, as has occurred in recent years.
+Added: Sudden increases in price or lack of availability of raw materials can be caused by a natural disaster, regulation or other market forces, as has occurred in recent years.
We have experienced production halts from shortages of primary building materials in the past, and although we attempt to increase the sales prices of our homes in response to higher materials costs, such increases may lag behind the escalation of material costs.
−Removed: Excessive health and safety incidents relating to our operations could be costly to the Company
+Added: Health and safety incidents relating to our operations could be costly to the Company
Home construction is inherently dangerous.
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Increases in the rate of cancellations of home sales orders could have an adverse effect on the Company's business
−Removed: Our backlog reflects home sales orders with our distributors and home buyers for homes that have not yet entered production.
+Added: Our home order backlog reflects home sales orders with our distributors and home buyers for homes that have not yet entered production.
Distributors and home buyers may cancel orders prior to production without penalty.
−Removed: If there is a downturn in the housing market, or if financing becomes less available or more expensive to obtain with higher interest rates, more distributors and homebuyers may cancel their agreements of sale with us, which would have an adverse effect on our business and results of operations.
+Added: If there is a downturn in the housing market, or if financing becomes less available or more expensive to obtain due to higher interest rates or otherwise, more distributors and homebuyers may cancel their agreements of sale with us, which would have an adverse effect on our business and results of operations.
The Company may not be able to successfully integrate past or future acquisitions to attain the anticipated benefits and such acquisitions may adversely impact the Company's liquidity
−Removed: We have acquired industry competitors in the past and may consider additional strategic acquisitions if such opportunities arise.
+Added: We have acquired industry participants in the past and may consider additional strategic acquisitions if such opportunities arise.
Prior acquisitions and any other acquisitions that may be considered in the future involve a number of risks, including the diversion of our management's attention from the existing business for those transactions that we complete, or possible adverse effects on our operating results and liquidity during the integration process.
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We offer conforming mortgages, non-conforming mortgages and home-only loans to purchasers of factory-built homes sold by Company-owned retail stores and independent distributors, builders, communities and developers through our subsidiary, CountryPlace.
−Removed: Most loans we originate are sold to investors.
+Added: Most loans we originate are sold to third party investors.
We also provide various loan servicing functions for non-affiliated entities under contract.
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If customers do not repay their loans, we may repossess or foreclose on the secured property in order to liquidate the loan collateral and minimize losses.
−Removed: The homes and land securing the loans are subject to fluctuating market values and proceeds realized from liquidating repossessed or foreclosed property are highly susceptible to adverse movements in collateral values.
+Added: The homes and land (except for home-only loans) securing the loans are subject to fluctuating market values and the proceeds realized from liquidating repossessed or foreclosed property are highly susceptible to adverse movements in collateral values.
Home price depreciation and elevated levels of unemployment may result in additional defaults and increase the severity of loss upon collateral liquidation.
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Although we offer loan products and price our loans at levels that we believe are marketable at the time of credit application approval, market conditions for such loans may deteriorate rapidly and significantly.
−Removed: Our ability to respond to changing market conditions is affected by credit approval and funding commitments we make in advance of loan completion.
+Added: Our ability to respond to changing market conditions is affected by credit approval and funding commitments we make in advance of loan completion and home closing.
In this environment, it is difficult to predict the types of loan products and characteristics that may be susceptible to future market curtailments and tailor loan offerings accordingly.
−Removed: As a result, no assurances can be given that the market value of our loans will not decline in the future, or that a market will continue to exist for loan products.
+Added: As a result, no assurances can be given that the market value of our loans will not decline in the future, or that a market will continue to exist for our loan products.
We sell loans through GSE-related programs and to whole-loan purchasers and also finance certain loans with long-term credit facilities secured by the respective loans.
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Standard Casualty specializes in homeowner property and casualty insurance products for the manufactured housing industry, primarily serving the Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada markets.
−Removed: Property and casualty insurance companies are subject to certain risk-based capital requirements usually in accordance with model rules as specified by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.
−Removed: Under these requirements, the amount of capital and surplus maintained by a property and casualty insurance company is determined based on its various risk factors.
+Added: Property and casualty insurance companies are subject to certain risk-based capital requirements usually in accordance with model rules as specified by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners ("NAIC").
+Added: Under these requirements, the amount of capital and surplus maintained by a property and casualty insurance company is determined based on NAIC's various risk factors.
Certain of our premiums and benefits are assumed from and ceded to other insurance companies under various reinsurance agreements.
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We are increasingly dependent on information technology systems and infrastructure to operate our business.
−Removed: In the ordinary course of business, we collect, store, process and transmit significant amounts of sensitive information, including proprietary business information, personal information and other confidential information, including that of our customers, vendors and suppliers.
+Added: In the ordinary course of business, we collect, store, process and transmit significant amounts of sensitive information, including proprietary business information, personal information and other confidential information, including that of our customers, employees, vendors and suppliers.
All information systems are subject to disruption, breach or failure.
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Our goodwill could be impaired if developments affecting our manufacturing operations or the markets in which we produce manufactured homes lead us to conclude that the cash flows expected to be derived from our manufacturing operations will be substantially reduced.
−Removed: If the Company is unable to establish or maintain relationships with its independent distributors who sell the Company's homes, revenue could decline
+Added: If the Company is unable to establish or maintain relationships with its independent distributors who sell the Company's homes, our revenue could decline
During fiscal year 2025, approximately 79% of our sales of factory-built homes were to independent distributors.
As is common in the industry, independent distributors may also sell homes produced by competing manufacturers.
−Removed: We may not be able to establish relationships with new independent distributors or maintain good relationships with independent distributors that sell our homes.
+Added: We may not be able to establish relationships with new independent distributors or maintain good relationships with our existing independent distributors that sell our homes.
Even if we do establish and maintain relationships with independent distributors, these distributors are not obligated to sell our homes exclusively.
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Due to the concentrated nature of the operations, there could be instances where these regions are negatively impacted by economic, natural or population changes that could, in turn, negatively impact our results of operations more than those of other companies that are more geographically dispersed.
−Removed: We operate 29 homebuilding production lines located in the Northwest, Southwest, South, Southeast, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions.
+Added: We operate 29 homebuilding production lines located in the Northwest, Southwest, South, Southeast, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions and 2 production lines in Mexico.
We have a significant presence in Texas with factories in the cities of Austin, Fort Worth, Seguin and Waco, and a facility in Presidio that serves as a shipping point for homes produced in Mexico.
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Such differences could have a material adverse effect on our income tax provision or benefit, or other tax reserves, and, consequently, on our results of operations, financial position or cash flows.
−Removed: A prolonged delay by Congress and the President to approve budgets or continuing appropriation resolutions to facilitate the operations of the federal government could delay the completion of home sales and/or cause cancellations, and thereby negatively impact the Company's deliveries and revenues
+Added: A prolonged delay by Congress and the President to approve budgets or continuing appropriation resolutions to facilitate the operations of the federal government could delay the completion of home sales and/or cause cancellations, and thereby negatively impact the Company's deliveries and revenue
Congress and the President may not timely approve budgets or appropriation legislation to facilitate the operations of the federal government.
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Some of the Company's manufacturing production employees are represented by unions, and failure to negotiate reasonable collective bargaining agreements may result in strikes, work stoppages or substantially higher ongoing labor costs
−Removed: Certain manufacturing production employees (approximately 7% of our total employees) are represented by unions and are covered by collective bargaining agreements, which expire in April 2026 and February 2027.
+Added: Certain manufacturing production employees (approximately 7% of our total employees as of March 29, 2025) are represented by unions and are covered by collective bargaining agreements, which expire in April 2026 and February 2027.
Wages, health and welfare benefits, work rules and other issues have historically been negotiated in a reasonable amount of time and have previously not resulted in any extended work stoppages.
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We have two production lines in Mexico which are dependent upon receiving materials from our facility in Presidio, Texas.
−Removed: Shutdown or delays at the United States/Mexico border could impact production at those facilities and our ability to receive the finished goods from those facilities, each of which could adversely affect our results of operations.
+Added: Shutdown or delays at the United States/Mexico border, tariffs on goods coming from Mexico, and/or trade wars with the Mexican government could impact production at those facilities and our ability to receive the finished goods from those facilities, each of which could adversely affect our results of operations.
Industry and Economic Risks
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An increase in interest rates could reduce potential buyers' ability or desire to obtain financing with which to buy homes and adversely affect the Company's business or financial results.
−Removed: The Federal Reserve Board has raised its benchmark rate multiple times in recent years, with further increases possible.
+Added: From March 2022 through December 2023, the Federal Reserve increased its benchmark interest rate 11 times, resulting in significantly higher mortgage interest rates.
+Added: Although the Federal Reserve subsequently lowered its benchmark interest rate three times since September 2024, mortgage interest rates remain elevated from their previously historically low levels prior to 2022 following COVID-19.
Increases in interest rates could significantly increase the cost of owning a new home, which usually reduces the number of potential buyers who can afford, or are willing, to purchase homes we build.
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Reduced availability of floor plan lending negatively affects the inventory levels of our independent distributors, the number of retail sales center locations and related wholesale demand, and the availability of, and access to, capital on an ongoing basis.
−Removed: The Company's operating results could be affected by market forces and declining housing demand
−Removed: As a participant in the homebuilding industry, we are subject to market forces beyond our control.
−Removed: These market forces include employment levels, employment growth, interest rates, consumer confidence, home input supply availability, land availability and development costs, suppliers impacted by global conflicts, apartment and rental housing vacancy levels, inflation, deflation, bank-specific and broader financial institution liquidity risk and the health of the general economy.
−Removed: Unfavorable changes in any of the above factors or other issues could have an adverse effect on our revenues, earnings or financial position.
+Added: Deterioration in economic conditions, turmoil in financial markets, or declining housing demand could reduce the Company's earnings and financial condition
+Added: Deterioration in global, national, regional or local economic conditions, turmoil in financial markets, and market forces outside our control could have a negative impact on our business.
+Added: Among other things, unfavorable changes in employment levels, job growth, consumer confidence and income, inflation, deflation, trade tariffs, foreign currency exchange rates, interest rates and adverse developments with respect to specific financial institutions or the broader financial services industry may further reduce demand for our products or have an adverse effect on the availability of financing to our customers, which could negatively affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
The cyclical and seasonal nature of the manufactured housing industry causes the Company's revenues and operating results to fluctuate, and we expect this cyclicality and seasonality to continue in the future
The manufactured housing industry is highly cyclical and seasonal and is influenced by many national and regional economic and demographic factors, including the availability of consumer financing for home buyers, the availability of wholesale financing for distributors, seasonality of demand, consumer confidence, interest rates, demographic and employment trends, income levels, housing demand, general economic conditions, including inflation and recessions, and the availability of suitable home sites.
+Added: In addition, the housing industry is subject to seasonal fluctuations based on new home buyer purchasing patterns.
+Added: Demand for our core new home products typically peaks each spring and summer before declining in the winder, consistent with the overall housing industry.
As a result of the foregoing economic, demographic and other factors, our revenues and operating results fluctuate, and we expect them to continue to fluctuate in the future.
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If we are unable to compete effectively in this environment, revenues could be reduced.
−Removed: Deterioration in economic conditions and turmoil in financial markets could reduce the Company's earnings and financial condition
−Removed: Deterioration in global, national, regional or local economic conditions and turmoil in financial markets could have a negative impact on our business.
−Removed: Among other things, unfavorable changes in employment levels, job growth, consumer confidence and income, inflation, deflation, trade tariffs, foreign currency exchange rates, interest rates and adverse developments with respect to specific financial institutions or the broader financial services industry may further reduce demand for our products or have an adverse effect on the availability of financing to our customers, which could negatively affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Changes in the exchange rates for Mexican Pesos could adversely affect the value of the Company's investments in Mexico and cause foreign exchange losses
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Legal and Regulatory Risks
+Added: Changes in trade policies may result in increased costs and could adversely affect our operating results
+Added: The impact of geopolitical tensions, including the potential implementation of more restrictive trade policies, higher tariffs or the renegotiation of existing trade agreements in the U.S.
+Added: could have a material adverse effect on our business.
+Added: In particular, political or trade disputes, or future phases of trade negotiations with China, Canada, Mexico, or other countries from which we import parts for our products that could lead to the imposition of tariffs or other trade actions could require us to take action to mitigate those effects.
+Added: We may be unable to pass through additional tariff costs to our customers through price increases, and may be unable to secure adequate alternative sources of materials and supplies.
+Added: Our inability to offset higher tariff costs could have a material adverse effect on our operating results, profitability, customer relationships and future cash flow.
If favorable local zoning ordinances are not adopted or if local zoning ordinances become further restricted, the Company's revenue could decline and its business could be adversely affected
Manufactured housing communities and individual home placements are subject to local zoning ordinances and other local regulations relating to utility service and construction of roadways.
−Removed: In the past, property owners often have resisted the adoption of zoning ordinances permitting the location of manufactured homes in residential areas, which we believe has restricted the growth of the industry.
+Added: In the past, area property owners often have resisted the adoption of zoning ordinances permitting the location of manufactured homes in residential areas, which we believe has restricted the growth of the industry.
Manufactured homes may not achieve widespread acceptance and localities may not adopt zoning ordinances permitting the development of manufactured home communities.
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A variety of federal, state and local laws and regulations affect the production and sale of manufactured housing.
−Removed: Please refer to Part I, Item 1, "Business - Government Regulation" for a description of many of these laws and
+Added: Please refer to Part I, Item 1, "Business - Government Regulation" for a description of many of these laws and regulations.
Our failure to comply with such laws and regulations could expose us to a wide variety of sanctions, including closing one or more manufacturing facilities.
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Future laws and regulations or changes to existing laws and regulations may be more stringent, require changes in our operating practices, or require us to incur significant additional costs, which could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
−Removed: The Company may face risks related to the SEC Litigation, including potential shareholder litigation or potential reputational damage that the Company may suffer as a result of the litigation
−Removed: As disclosed in Part I, Item 3, "Legal Proceedings", on September 2, 2021, the SEC filed a civil complaint in the United States District Court, District of Arizona, naming the Company along with the Company's former Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer ("former CEO") and the Company's former Chief Financial Officer ("former CFO"), alleging violations of the antifraud and internal accounting control provisions of the Exchange Act based on trading in the shares of another company directed by the former CEO that resulted in an unrealized gain of approximately $265,000.
−Removed: In fiscal 2022, the Company recorded an accrual relating to this loss contingency.
−Removed: On September 23, 2022, the United States District Court for the District of Arizona approved the settlement of the SEC action against the Company (the "SEC Settlement").
−Removed: Without admitting or denying the findings of the consent judgment, the Company agreed to the imposition of an injunction against future violations of the antifraud and internal accounting control provisions of the Exchange Act and a monetary penalty of $1.5 million, which did not have a material impact on the Company's financial statements.
−Removed: The settlement resolves all claims in such action against the Company.
−Removed: In May 2024, the SEC settled all pending litigation with our former CFO and as a result all SEC claims against the Company and our former officers are now closed (collectively, the "SEC Litigation").
−Removed: We are unable to predict what consequences any investigation by any regulatory agency may have on us, including significant legal and accounting expenses.
−Removed: These matters may also divert management's attention from other business concerns, which could harm the business and could result in reputational damage.
−Removed: Any proceedings commenced against us by a regulatory agency could result in administrative orders against us, the imposition of penalties and/or fines against us and/or the imposition of sanctions against certain of our current or former officers, directors and/or employees.
−Removed: The investigations, litigation or remedial actions we have taken or are currently undertaking may adversely affect our business.
Losses not covered by our Director and Officer ("D&O") insurance may be large, which could adversely impact the Company's financial performance
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